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Peggy Orenstein Nonfiction author, memoirist, and veteran journalist

Peggy Orenstein

Author Biography

Peggy Orenstein is the author, most recently, of the memoir, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman’s Quest to Become a Mother (Bloomsbury USA).
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Peggy Orenstein's Blog

Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Moments
November 30, 2007
- Women are defensive about their choices and that's totally understandable. In a time of cultural flux, someone else's decisions and accommodations can feel like a reproach.
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Published Works


Waiting for Daisy	Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World	SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
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Published Reviews

A Mom's Bittersweet Path to Parenthood by The Los Angeles Times
Hope Springs Maternal by The New York Times
Waiting for Daisy by People Magazine
A Painful Quest for Motherhood in 'Waiting for Daisy' Delivers Comfort for Others by Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Misconceptions: A Writer Recounts the Ordeals She Went Through to Have a Child by Washington Post
"Elle Lettres Reader Award" by Elle Magazine
Approval Matrix by New York Magazine
Waiting for Daisy by MORE Magazine